CD Cup Part II

Following on from some of the discussions we had during the Virtual First Thursday, I have a bit more of a clue about the form the CD Cup will take.

Round 1 … I have 18 names … this will correspond to 8 ties … 6 of these will be head to head, the other two will be two groups of 3, with only the winner going forward.

Jocky has selected the theme which we will use for the first two rounds, and the theme is 'Guilty Pleasures' … so songs which you like even though you perhaps shouldn't. It is going to be very hard to enforce any ruling about what constitutes a guilty pleasure, so it will be left entirely up to you.

We're thinking of running this up during a series of weekly events on Thursday nights.

For Round 1, there will be two or three sessions … one a week.

Contestants will be given an alias and pitched against each other at random … you will have to trust me to do this fairly.

So in the first leg, I will ask for songs in from the first group of competitors for Wednesday evening … please be prompt because then I will put them in a YouTube playlist, or write a post here with links to the tracks … so all tracks have to be available on YouTube. This list will then be sent to everyone, and people can listen ahead of the Thursday evening virtual meeting should they wish.

On the Thursday evening, we will have a meeting, probably over zoom where we will all listen to the tracks, and comment on them … probably via text chat … we will each have to play the tracks on our own devices.  We can then express our votes (a score out of 5 … decimals permitted) either during the meeting, or separately via email.

The winners will be then decided on the outcomes of those votes …

I think that is the basis of a plan … comments welcome.

CD Cup

Strange times we find ourselves in … hopefully members of the CD Consortium can find a way of making a CD cup work.

As will be evident, I have been somewhat remiss in keeping this site up to date … we are now on CD27 and the last CD on here was CD18!

Anyway, maybe this site could be used as a hub for our up-and-coming CD Cup?

I imagine that links to YouTube videos of the head-to-head tracks could be posted here … we could do with working out a voting mechanism though … anyway … watch this space.

CD 19 - Theme Announcement ...

Theme Announcement:

I'm not going to launch it just yet, but Pete has decided that the theme for the next CD will be ...

 

*Royalty*

 

...

 

Be creative! Or not. I wouldn't blame anyone for putting on a Queen track ... even though they've been on before.

CD 18: 18ve Results

CD18 - Results In a dramatic late climb up the table Pete Hodgson secured a few 12 pointers and has ended up being the winner … again!

So Pete H scored 97 points with PJ Harvey’s The Whores Hustle and The Hustlers Whore. Incidentally, this track also gets the Marmite award for either being loved or hated.

In second place we have Pete K whose Modern Love by The Courteeners scored 91 points, having been ahead in the voting for most of the time scores were coming in, right up until the last deciding sheet.

Third place goes to Katja who chose Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) by Buzzcocks scoring 87 points.

We wouldn’t want for two of the Petes to be in the medals without the third Pete getting something, so thankfully, Pete Q showed spookily accurate insight into guessing who put on what, getting 9 correct (including his own). If his IT skills were slightly better, I’d suspect him of hacking into my files!

And now, the not so pleasant part of the awards … the Wooden Spoon. What to say? A few tracks flirted with the bottom spot, but in the end, Sam’s The World Spins by Julee Cruise proved to be just a bit too slow and long for most people’s taste, and scored 24 points. Perhaps too many points to fully claim the ‘Why Did You Even Bother’ award.

Howard and Katja were the only people to avoid detection this time, with no-one pegging them for their respective tracks, and this being despite Howard having put on a Tom Waits track in the past!

Franck gets the ‘Hiding In Plain Sight’ award and was picked out 7 times. Jasper was much improved in this regard, this time round and was only picked out twice.

Simon and Jim were each picked out 6 times, just once less than Franck.

Thanks all for another memorable CD.

CD Club #18 - l8ve				Awards
Track No.	Title	Artist	Chosen By
1	Sweet Child O' Mine	Guns N' Roses	Nick	49
2	Another Nail In My Heart	Squeeze	Simon	67
3	Your Love	Frankie Knuckles	Jim	45
4	Strangers	Sigrid	Bob	72
5	I Drove All Night	Roy Orbison	Allan	35
6	Modern Love	The Courteeners	Pete K	91
7	Ring Of Fire	Eric Burdon & The Animals	Mick L	33
8	All Of Me	John Legend	Jasper	43
9	Willow Tree	Tom Speight	Pete Q	32
10	For Me Formidable	Charles Aznavour	Franck	29
11	I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You	Tom Waits	Howard	52
12	Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)	Buzzcocks	Katja	87
13	Spread Your Love	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	Kate	58
14	I Don't Know Why I Love You	House Of Love	Chris	79
15	Strict Machine	Goldfrapp	Rob	77
16	The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore	PJ Harvey	Pete H	97
17	Gay Pirates	Cosmo Jarvis	Neil	74
18	The World Spins	Julee Cruise	Sam	24

CD 18 - 18ve - Track Listing

Track No.	Title	Artist
1	Sweet Child O' Mine	Guns N' Roses
2	Another Nail In My Heart	Squeeze
3	Your Love	Frankie Knuckles
4	Strangers	Sigrid
5	I Drove All Night	Roy Orbison
6	Modern Love	The Courteeners
7	Ring Of Fire	Eric Burdon & The Animals
8	All Of Me	John Legend
9	Willow Tree	Tom Speight
10	For Me Formidable	Charles Aznavour
11	I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You	Tom Waits
12	Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)	Buzzcocks
13	Spread Your Love	Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
14	I Don't Know Why I Love You	House Of Love
15	Strict Machine	Goldfrapp
16	The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore	PJ Harvey
17	Gay Pirates	Cosmo Jarvis
18	The World Spins	Julee Cruise

CD 18 - Theme Announcement

It's been a while coming, but perhaps the oldest and most used theme of all songs it coming to the CD consortium - LOVE

CD 17 - SPIR17UAL17Y - Results

And the winner of Best Track is …

*dramatic pause*

*needless further pause*

*really annoying extended pause* 

Pete Hodgson’s track Closer To Fine by Indigo Girls with a score of 120 points! This is quite some score. Congratulations Pete on a first time win – you’d best get thinking of the next theme.

In silver medal position is Allan with Take Me To Church by Hozier, which scored 98 points.

Bronze goes to Katja for God Song by Bad Religion, scoring 90 points.

Shall we get the wooden spoon out of the way? This isn’t going to do his persecution complex any good at all because the winner of the wooden spoon is, once again, Jasper with Papa Don’t Preach by Madonna which managed to score only 18 points. To be fair, it was a strong field.

Jasper was also picked out the most times with 12 people correctly identifying his track. Also, it must be borne in mind that this is out of 14 people who had a go at saying who put on what. Although, to be fair, there was a small element of surprise in Jasper’s track selection because as soon as the theme was announced, most people seemed to think that he would go for Like A Prayer by Madonna, so maybe that’s what foxed the two people who didn’t identify him?

The cloak and dagger award for avoiding detection completely is shared between three people this time round, Simon, Howard and Allan.

So on to who guessed who …

Well we have three joint winners in this. Neil, Rob and Mick Lewus, identifying 7 contributors correctly (including themselves).

 

CD Club #17 - SPIR17UAL17Y				Awards
Track No.	Title	Artist	Chosen By		Position
1	Personal Jesus	Depeche Mode	Kate	61	8
2	Motorcycle Emptiness	Manic Street Preachers	Nick	67	7
3	Papa Don't Preach	Madonna	Jasper	14	18
4	Jesus He Knows Me	Genesis	Franck	55	9
5	What The Hell Is It This Time?	Sparks	Chris	38	13
6	Angel Of London	Tensheds	Howard	72	6
7	Closer To Fine	Indigo Girls	Pete H	120	1
8	Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)	Monsters Of Folk	Pete Q	24	17
9	God Song	Bad Religion	Katja	90	3
10	Happiness Is Just A Chant Away	Chumbawamba	Neil	27	16
11	Religion	Public Image Limited (Kid Loco Remix)	Jim	38	13
12	Bodhisattva	Steely Dan	Mick L	46	11
13	God & Satan	Biffy Clyro	Simon	87	4
14	Destroying Angel	Sneaker Pimps	Rob	50	10
15	Drops Of Jupiter	Train	Bob	43	12
16	Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks	Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds	Pete K	77	5
17	Take Me To Church	Hozier	Allan	98	2
18	Halo	Depeche Mode	Sam	37	15

CD 17 - SPIR17UAL17Y - Track List

I've been a bit slack in updating the blog with information relating to CD 17 - so first things first, here's the track list ...

Track No.	Title	Artist
1	Personal Jesus	Depeche Mode
2	Motorcycle Emptiness	Manic Street Preachers
3	Papa Don't Preach	Madonna
4	Jesus He Knows Me	Genesis
5	What The Hell Is It This Time?	Sparks
6	Angel Of London	Tensheds
7	Closer To Fine	Indigo Girls
8	Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)	Monsters Of Folk
9	God Song	Bad Religion
10	Happiness Is Just A Chant Away	Chumbawamba
11	Religion	Public Image Limited (Kid Loco Remix)
12	Bodhisattva	Steely Dan
13	God & Satan	Biffy Clyro
14	Destroying Angel	Sneaker Pimps
15	Drops Of Jupiter	Train
16	Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks	Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
17	Take Me To Church	Hozier
18	Halo	Depeche Mode

SPIT17UAL17Y - My Track Considerations

OK - there are a few tracks I was considering for the CD (as always) and some I would like to share even though they didn't make it in the end.

First is Great Dreams Of Heaven by Ian Mcnabb:



Well this would have qualified for several reasons - firstly, it's got 'heaven' in the title, but then it's a list song (which was a possible theme), and also mentions 'football' and so would have qualified for the last theme too. It was written several years ago, but some of the phrases resonate and relevant in today's uneasy international times.

Then Just Like Heaven by The Cure:



No further explanation needed for this one really - great track.

Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones



I've not listened to this live version but embedding of the album track has been disabled (the one I tried to link). This is one of my favourite Stones tracks - I'm not a mega-fan but I love this song. Listening now as I type this, it doesn't quite have the same quality as the album track which builds really nicely. It was probably the first track that came to mind when the theme was announced.

Don't Look Down - The Divine Comedy



I came so so close to putting this track on the CD. Firstly anything by 'The Divine Comedy' would obviously qualify for the theme. Secondly, they are probably still my favourite band. Thirdly, this is on of my favourites of theirs and exemplary of the kind of song which made me love the band in the first place. Fourthly and by no means least importantly, it contains a bit of a poke at established Christian views of God and religion - and then there's the ominous warning at the very end 'DON'T LOOK DOWN'.

Other notable mentions are:

Godless by The Dandy Warhols



Demon In Profile - The Afghan Whigs



American Jesus - Bad Religion

CD 16 - Musica1 6ames - Results

CD Club #16 - MUSICA1 6AMES				Points
Track No.	Title	Artist	Chosen By
1	Out Of The Blue	BBC Philharmonic Orchestra	Jim	13
2	La Copa de la Vida	Ricky Martin	Sam	14
3	Winning	Chris Rea	Howard	34
4	Go Insane	Lindsey Buckingham	Pete H	65
5	Tour De France	Kraftwerk	Katja	61
6	The Distance	Cake	Neil	113
7	Coney Island Baby	Lou Reed	Mick L	30
8	Stars Of Track And Field	Belle & Sebastian	Kate	51
9	Run	Snow Patrol	Nick	71
10	Waka Waka	Shakira	Jasper	30
11	Gameshow	Two Door Cinema Club	Bob	94
12	Chelsea Dagger	The Fratellis	Rob	59
13	My Body	Young The Giant	Chris	79
14	Mc Enroe's Poetry	Dionysos	Franck	36
15	Nightswimming	REM	Simon	93
16	The Body Of An American	The Pogues	Pete Q	70
17	Heavyweight Champion Of The World	Reverend And The Makers	Pete K	91
18	Nessun Dorma	Pavarotti	Allan	40

Congratulations go to Neil for the best track of CD 16 The Distance by Cake with a score of 113 points.

Second place goes to Bob for Gameshow by Two Door Cinema Club scoring 94 points and just pipping Simon’s Nightswimming by CD club regulars R.E.M. which scored 93 points.

Shall we just get the wooden spoon out of the way? Well it was Jim with Out Of The Blue by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. At least it scored 13 points. Just one point behind La Copa De La Vida making this possibly one of the least favoured opening two tracks in the history of the CD Consortium.

On to ‘who put on what’ and Pete H looked set to return to form guessing, 6 contributors correctly, alongside Pete K (is this a Pete thing? *checks Pete Q* *sees score of 5* maybe it is!) but then a last-minute dip at the finish line saw Neil edge to victory, correctly identifying 7 contributors! So, a double victory for Neil.

Unsurprisingly, Pete ‘anything with a mandolin or by the Pogues or both’ Quin was picked out the most times (8). This means that there are 5 guessers who still haven’t sussed out Pete’s tastes? What’s wrong with you people? Also, what’s wrong with the people who didn’t guess that it was Katja who put on ‘Tour De France’ by the German group Kraftwerk who Katja went to watch this summer, and who also went to watch the start of the ‘Tour de France’?

Avoiding detection completely this time round were: Sam, Rob and Pete K.